Calendar Apps

E-Readers

LifeHacker has an excellent article on using e-readers for college work – A Student’s Guide to Using the Kindle for Research. I especially like that they cover highlighting and creating flashcards (not available on all ebooks). My Nook HD has similar features. One caveat is that a lot of textbooks have color illustrations and the cheaper Kindles, Nooks, etc. won’t work well for these.

Evernote/OneNote Updates

Another good post from Jamie Todd Rubin from his Going Paperless web site on search syntax in Evernote. The thing that excited me most was actually a minor point in the post, but which I will find very useful – Evernote supports using quote marks to search a phrase. A short article in Gizmodo Australia covers a lot of information regardless of length. Livescribe Lets You Capture Your Penstrokes into OneNote Now discusses a third party app called Outline lets you save notes taken with the Livescribe digital pen into OneNote. It already supports Evernote. Also discusses the lack of Livescribe support for Android, and it is hoped this will be remedied by the end of the year.

Productivity Apps

Android Apps: The Best to Boost Productivity – these kind of articles are very frequent and I don’t often mention them, but this is an exception in that it is (a) about Android apps, and (b) mentions some kinds of apps not usual in such articles, such as FolderSync to backup files to the cloud automatically.

Resolutions

Yes, I know, you are sick of articles about New Year’s resolutions, but this one from GradHacker is unusually sane – including the advice that above all, don’t feel guilty about failing to keep a resolution, as that isn’t productive.

Scanning Apps

I’m absolutely thrilled with the idea of apps that use your smartphone or tablet camera as a document scanner. This has been around for a year or two. Addictive Tips covers a new one for Android that scans and allows you to mark up a document, including adding a signature.